In Incheon Port, the five Daifuku ships are extremely busy. The hired Koreans are working hard to carry bags of rice to the Daifuku ships. You can get a penny by moving a bag of rice without having to travel far. Such a good thing is
I couldn't find it even with a lantern.
As for the students of the Maritime Academy, they are currently replenishing supplies, ship maintenance, canvas repair and other work before setting sail, and are preparing to return to Daming again.
Time was in a hurry. When he arrived, Liu Jin had repeatedly warned him to return as soon as possible after purchasing the food. Liu Jin needed food, and the more the better.
Du Mingen naturally remembered Liu Jin's words firmly. All the food purchased was rice, with the husk removed.
Naturally, buying rice directly will cost more, but Du Mingen is really not short of money now. All the glass products he brought this time were snapped up by North Korean businessmen.
When it comes to glass products, especially mirrors, North Koreans, like people from the Ming Dynasty, have almost no resistance. What's more, when these students are selling, they all say, "How is it in our Ming Dynasty?"
'This thing is also very rare and precious in our Ming Dynasty', 'This is the most popular thing in our Ming Dynasty', 'Only wealthy families can afford it' and so on.
These were all marketing methods that Liu Jin had thought of in advance. In this era, North Korea learned everything from the Ming Dynasty. Whatever the Ming Dynasty liked, the same was true for North Korea. Whatever was popular in the Ming Dynasty, it was naturally popular in North Korea.
Coupled with appropriate hunger marketing methods, these five ships could have brought a lot of glass products, but Liu Jin did not ask Du Mingen to bring too many. Everything has a certain quantity limit, which gave the North Koreans the feeling that
This thing is indeed rare, and it will be gone if you are slow to get started.
So just by bringing a boatload of glass products to North Korea, Du Mingen sold more than three million taels of silver, making him very rich.
So I don't care at all whether the price of buying rice directly will be higher. What I care about is how to bring more food back to the Ming Dynasty.
After a pound of rice is shelled, about seven taels of rice are left. Taking the rice back to Daming directly means that you can bring 30% more grain. Du Mingen naturally calculated this account clearly.
"One lucky ship can hold about 6,500 shi of grain, and five ships can hold 32,500 shi of grain, which is a full 5 million kilograms of rice. It should be enough for a short time."
(I checked the information. The length of Fu is over 24 meters, the width is over 9 meters, and the load capacity is over 500 tons. For calculation, here is the lowest 500 tons. 500 tons is equal to 1 million catties. In the Ming Dynasty, one catty was about 560 grams, and one stone was about
It’s about 153 pounds. I’ll simply remove the fraction and calculate it here. Don’t worry too much about it.)
Du Mingen looked at the mountains of grain piled on the shore and calculated it carefully in his mind. This time he purchased nothing but grain.
And according to Liu Jin's instructions, glass products were given priority to merchants who could provide a large amount of grain. If they were purchased with grain, they could also be given price discounts, so this time they also purchased enough grain.
"This glass business is really profitable. A shipload of glass products brought back not only five million kilograms of rice, but also three million taels of silver. The money spent on purchasing these grains was not even a fraction."
Thinking of this, Du Mingen couldn't help but laugh.
He is also a businessman. He used to be a businessman in the grain business. He transported rice from the south to the north for sale. It seems that he is a relatively successful businessman. He has accumulated a lot of wealth by selling grain.
But compared with Liu Jin, he suddenly felt that his previous life was just a small job, and he could not get on the stage. He used to work so hard that he could earn tens of thousands of taels of silver at the end of the year.
Very good.
This is also grain trading, one of the most profitable businesses in this era. It is ranked as the most profitable business in this era along with salt, iron, silk, tea, cloth, etc.
But as for Liu Jin, Xishan Coal Industry can make millions of taels of silver a year in the capital alone by selling coal that no one wanted before. The glass factory it built is even more profitable. The ancient and modern buildings are all
The place where dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital rush to spend money, now they go to the sea to make a fortune. A trip to North Korea can actually earn three million taels of silver.
He was really impressed by this method and the speed at which he made a fortune.
Fortunately, he has a share in this business. The fleet and the glass factory are separate. The money earned by the fleet is the fleet's money, and the money earned by the glass factory is the glass factory's money.
After all, the shareholders are different. The shareholders of the fleet are Du Mingen, Liu Jin, and Emperor Hongzhi, while the shareholders of the glass factory are Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao. The accounts still need to be settled clearly.
This glass product was purchased on credit from the glass factory, and the price was calculated at 70% of the sales price at Gujinlou. When it arrived in North Korea, Du Mingen sold it at twice the price at Gujinlou.
So if you calculate the accounts carefully, settle the accounts at the glass factory when you return, and then pay salaries, rewards, etc. to the crew members who went out to sea this time, you can still make a profit of two million taels for this trip.
According to what was originally discussed, he, Du Mingen, could account for one-third, which meant that he could earn nearly 700,000 taels of silver from a trip to North Korea in only about half a month.
After thinking about it, Du Mingen was laughing from ear to ear. The money came too quickly and easily.
This further strengthened his confidence in following Liu Jin to make a fortune.
"No wonder the big families in the south are all trying their best to go to sea to do business. One trip to the sea is enough to last a lifetime."
Du Mingen remembered that in coastal areas such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, there were many big families doing business secretly, and all of them were extremely wealthy.
He had only been involved in grain trading before and had never been exposed to sea trade. He did not have an intuitive feeling about the profits of sea trade.
But now he suddenly knew the profits of this sea trade, and he also realized firsthand what Liu Jin said about making a million profits.
"This is just a trip to North Korea. If I have the opportunity to go to Europe or Africa in the future!"
At this time, in Du Mingen's eyes, the rough sea in front of him seemed to be a cornucopia containing mountains of gold and silver. As long as he had a boat, he could obtain endless wealth from it.
As for the business of selling grain on land, he doesn't like it at all now. It's better to let others earn this hard-earned money.
